Jerry's Injuries

Let's spend a minute counting the Mets injuries that Jerry is managing through. First and foremost there's Delgado, Reyes, Beltran and Church. If you count emotional injuries, there's Ollie Perez. There's Schneider, who really isn't missed. There's Alex Cora and Ramon Martinez. Who did forget? Oh yes, Billy Wagner.

Now let's look at other teams. For example, Tampa Bay Rays, which is a team expected to compete. There injury has been Scott Kazmir, Shawn Riggans, Jason Bartlett, Chad Bradford, Pat Burrell, Akinori Iwamuram, Troy Percival, who might retire rather than return and Fernando Perez.

The point is that the Mets injury situation isn't unique. The problem is that the Mets do not have much depth in the minors from which to pull replacements. Omar and his crew haven't done a very good job to stock the minors. On top of that add the fact that Jerry just isn't a creative manager. It's like driving a car at 65 miles an hour - notice we are within speed limit - pointed directly at a cement wall. And the driver, Jerry, continues to go straight for that wall, another loss. Happens all the time with the Mets. Willie Randolph used to do that. Willie's former bench coach, Manuel, does it too.

On the bright side, we hear that FMart may be on his way to Citifield.